Jan 2012

Goals for Enriched Math Program

Self- Directed
Problem focussed
Extention options (and choice) made available regularly
Content AND Presentation equally weighted on Rubrics
Self Reflection, Conferencing and Goal setting Assessment Methodology used

MID IEP

B.A. Div. 4	Resource	Goals for Term 3	Results
Work Habits	My Wiki site	To improve his ownership and initiative by keeping him accountable on a daily basis with weekly conferences to discuss his progress and set or adjust goals accordingly	This worked only to a degree. On his own B.A. still showed a lack of initiative. Even with support he struggled to maintain any consistency in this area.
Oral	Let's Go [Green]	Improve his ability to express himself more clearly with less circumlocution Improve his ability to express himself in full sentences ('Can I get a drink' instead of 'drink')	Minimal prgoress noted here. B.A.'s converstional expressive language has only improved slightly over the course of the year. The conversational models were helpful and should be continued next year.
Reading [Computer]	Raz-Kids Google Images Dictionary.com	To give B.A. the opportunity to both hear and read a variety of books at his Independent Reading level with questions to follow To give him the opportunity to assess his progress through regular Running Records	B.A. was quite motivated to do this work B.A. seemed to benefit from the opportunity to hear himself read and to hear what he would do
Reading Strategies	Claws and Paws Round & Round	To improve his ability to use particular strategies when reading such as summarize, transform, visualize and sequence	B.A. did quite well with these activities. He was motivated and was able to work through particularly the vocab and comprehension activitindependently.
Writing	Journal	To improve his ability to express himself more fluently and with greater skill at being able to expand on a topic for the purpose of sharing his thoughts, feelings and experiences with an audience	B.A. had difficulty composing impromptu pieces based on his personal experience. he had more success writing from concrete and observable information -- more like writing a report -- but still it was a challenge for him to write in a coherent, sequential manner.
WR [Computer]	Weekly Letter/ Book Talk	To improve his writing by working a weekly letter and other projects (such as his monthly book talks) through the stages of the Writing Process using Kidspiration, Word and Power Point	This year B.A. received support in the form of having a scribe. His writing is still very much at the beginner stage. Next year this should be a high priority.
Grammar/Word Families	Blue Board Rhyming Dictionary	To improve his phonemic awareness skills -- through the study of Word Families -- that he would be better able to both hear and create rhymes	This was a very successful program. It helped solidify B.A.'s sense of how English words are constructed and for him to become better able to 'hear' the parts that make up English words.
Spelling-Vocabulary	Target Spelling [540] Spellingcity.com	To improve his ability to infer meaning through CLOZE activities, his visual discrimination skills through various exercises and his ability to use these words to create sentences.	B.A. needs more opportunity to make orginal sentences using new vocabulary.
Math Drills	Multiplication [3/4]	To improve his ability to compute through the 0-11 timestables	B.A. did well with these straight-forward computational activities.
Math	Do the Math [Division] Virtual Manipulatives	Review operational phrases and Telling Time (focus Digital Duration of Time Activities and Time of Day Check Calendar To improve his abilities and conceptual understanding of: Fractions, Movement on a Grid, Division and Multiplication through an emphasis on Concrete-Pictoral-Symbolic and the need to be able to both SHOW and TELL how to perform the various skills in a live Learing Log format of Audio recording and picture	All of these more conceptual math activities were a real challenge for B.A.. Next year he should work his way through a sequentially designed grade 1 level math program.
MA [Computer]	Math Playground	To expose him to a range of Math activities in an exploratory format	This was not a success.
ELL [Computer]	ello	To give him an opportunity to hear good english in conversations	He did not use this very often if at all.
WR [Computer]	All The Right Type	To introduce the concept of touch typing that he might improve his skills in this area	This was worth doing and may be something he could continue to do next year although it may be more profitable for him to either use a scribe or a text to specch program to record his ideas.

Student notes:

Date	T	Observations	Implications
March 14	R	During a Warm up Activity put time on clocks backwards [Math]	He needs to take a unit on time in his Math prog
	R	On a Math question did not know 'How many more?'[MA]	In his Math program he needs to review these operational terms. Perhaps best in Life skill situations: ie Money, or a Recipe
	R	During [French] Was using Circumlocution	Needs more Let's Go...
16	C	Unable to predict 'Find a Pattern' based on the pics	v. literal. He was able to get the 'pattern' of this book with support, however.
	C	Brandon explains 12/9	Here you can hear how he simply does not make connections on his own but, with support and patience, he CAN.
May 4	C	Weekly Checklist Conf	Needs to check off items AS HE COMPLETES them. B.A. gave himself a mark based on his effort. (See his Evernote note and pic on this). He reset his goals for the next week and we wrote out a simple rubric for both he and I to see what a G,S or N would look like (expressed concretely as 0-2 G, 1-10 S, 11-20 N, 21- I)

SLD IEP (Organization/Work Habits)

R.W. Div. 4	Resource	Goals for Term 3	Comments
Reading	Raz-Kids Tumble Books	To give him the opportunity to both hear and read a variety of books at his Independent Reading level with questions to follow To give him the opportunity to assess his progress through regular Running Records	He did for a while but then stopped completing the work
Writing /Grammar	Birdseye Writing Skills: Sentences	To improve his ability to identify and apply parts of speech. To improve his ability to identify and create complete sentences (working with subjects and predicates).	''
WR [Computer]	Weekly Letter/ Book Talk	To improve his writing by working a weekly letter and other projects (such as his monthly book talks) through the stages of the Writing Process using Kidspiration, Word and Power Point	R.W. opted out of this option and chose instead to do the work by hand
Spelling-Vocabulary	Target Spelling [540] Spellingcity.com	To improve his ability to infer meaning through CLOZE activities, his visual discrimination skills through various exercises and his ability to use these words to create sentences.	[see above '']
MA [Computer]	Math Playground	To expose him to a range of Math activities in an exploratory format	n/a
WR [Computer]	All The Right Type	To introduce the concept of touch typing that he might improve his skills in this area	[see above '']

Sample Records/Notes

Date	T	Observations	Implications	Actions
March 17	P	R.W. leaves projects to the last minute. Hard for parents to know what's due when	Needs a checklist/timeline (perhaps put these on the class wiki) Need some form of communication about project deadlinesPerhaps put these onto a calendar.
17	R	Comes to school tired	Perhaps needs a more consistent bedtime routine. Perhaps go into kick boxing or Hip Hop Dance to help tire him out.
17	R/P	Organization and Planner top issues	Things have improved but need to be maintained. The more he can access what's due
17	C/R/P	Prioblems staying focussed	The more he does quiet activities such as Word Searches, Memory games
17	R	Not participating in the Home Reading	P feels he needs to be more autonomous. The suggestion is to use Tumble Books @ home.
		Year End PTC Meeting
June 23	C	Does not do well with loose structures	Needs an established structure and homework routine (with consequences pre-determined)	Wiki site
	F	Gets behind easily	Needs more time to get work done.	Exempt him from French
	C	Has a frenetic level of energy	Needs a dance program or the like and exercise breaks at school	Famioly will look into this
	C/F	Has enough of a challenge to keep up with regular homework	Needs some form of (LST) support Needs an embedded LST support program	Needs Structure and Accountability
	C	Highly motivated for topics that interest him	Needs opp to follow his nose on self-directed projects	Work through the Writer's Process
	C	Very creative	Needs an Art element in his program	Incorporate this into projects
	C	Very Verbal	Needs share and speech opportunities (perhaps @ assemblies or announcements?)	Speech to text app (Windows app)
	C	His written output doesn't match his potential	Needs support for writing -- the Writer's Workshop?	Have him work through the Writing Process
	C	Benefits from talking about what he's learning	Needs a tutor @ home for Math 2-3 times a week	Context/Problem Solving Approach
	F		Needs help keeping track of his work/tasks	Establish a homework leaving routine/checklist Wiki
	F		Needs to understand what he's learing or establish some sort of routine	Open LST block/Peer Tutor support/Home tutor
	F		Needs to take ownership for his learning	Meet Parents, Ryan, LST, T to build the IEP in Sept.

SLD IEP (Grammar/Spelling/Writing)

N.W.	Resource	Objectives	Comments
Reading Comp	Claws and Paws	To improve his ability to use particular strategies when reading such as summarize, transform, visualize and sequence	Success
RD Computer [Reading Resource]	Raz-Kids In My World	To give him the opportunity to both hear and read a variety of books at his Independent Reading level with questions to follow To give him the opportunity to assess his progress through regular Running Records	a very good program because it gave Nelson the opportunity for a lot of reinforcement
Writing/Grammar	Brids Eye	To improve his ability to identify and apply parts of speech. To improve his ability to identify and create complete sentences (working with subjects and predicates).	very relevent and appropriate good progress More next year
Phonics/ Phonemic Awareness	Blue Board	To improve his phonemic awareness skills -- through the study of Word Families -- that he would be better able to both hear and create rhymes	this improved his PA More next year (in another format)
WR [Computer]	Weekly Letter/ Book Talk	To improve his writing by working a weekly letter and other projects (such as his monthly book talks) through the stages of the Writing Process using Kidspiration, Word and Power Point	This was particular effective when he had a scribe because N.W. has a lot of ideas
Spelling-Vocabulary	Target Spelling 540	To improve his ability to infer meaning through CLOZE activities, his visual discrimination skills through various exercises and his ability to use these words to create sentences.	This was successful More next year
WR Computer [Writing Resource]	Spellingcity.com	To improve his ability to infer meaning through CLOZE activities, his visual discrimination skills through various exercises and his ability to use these words to create sentences.	[see above]
Math Drills	Multiplication Facts 3/4	To improve his ability to compute through the 0-11 times tables	n/a
Math	Jump Math [Purple] (Number Sense)	n/a	n/a
MA Computer [Math Resouce]	Virtual Manipulatives	To give him the opportunity to manipulate virtual concrete materials to help him solidify his understanding of various math skills/concepts	n/a
Typing	All The Right Type	To introduce the concept of touch typing that he might improve his skills in this area	n/a

ELL AIP

E.M.	Resource	Objectives	Comments
Oral	Let's Go [Orange]	Improve his ability to express herself more clearly with less circumlocution Improve his ability to express herself in full sentences ('Can I get a drink' instead of 'drink')	more next year
Reading Comp	Claws and Paws	To improve her ability to use particular strategies when reading such as summarize, transform, visualize and sequence	good progress more next year
WR [Computer]	Weekly letter/ Book Talk	To improve her writing by working a weekly letter and other projects (such as his monthly book talks) through the stages of the Writing Process using Kidspiration, Word and Power Point	not enough of this happened this year for her more next year would be key
Grammar	Birdseye Sentence Builder	To improve her ability to identify and apply parts of speech. To improve her ability to identify and create complete sentences (working with subjects and predicates).	[see above]
Oral Computer [ELL Resource]	ello	To give her an opportunity to hear good english in conversations	[see above] this would still be good for her to do next year
RD Computer [Reading Resource]	Raz-Kids	To give her the opportunity to both hear and read a variety of books at his Independent Reading level with questions to follow To give him the opportunity to assess his progress through regular Running Records	good progress more next year (perhaps through the summer?)
Word computer [Vocab Resource]	Spellingcity.com	To improve her ability to infer meaning through CLOZE activities, his visual discrimination skills through various exercises and her ability to use these words to create sentences.	minimal progress more next year (perhaps through the summer?)